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Solve water problems before peace deal: Abbas
Istanbul (AFP) March 19, 2009Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas accused Israel on Thursday of forcing Palestinians to live in chronic water scarcity and declared a "rightful share" of water should not be tied to a peace deal. In a message read at the World Water Forum in Istanbul, the Palestinian Authority president said Israel's unilateral control over rivers and aquifers meant scarce water resources were not being shared ... more Millions wasted on Africa water projects: research 
London (AFP) March 20, 2009Hundreds of millions of dollars have been wasted on rural water projects in Africa because the donors and aid agencies that built them ignored maintenance, a new report claimed Friday. London-based research organisation the International Institute for Environment and Development said about 50,000 water supply points across rural Africa had failed, representing a loss of 215 to 360 million US ... more Fledgling Mantle Plume May Be Cause Of African Volcano's Unique Lava 
Rochester NY (SPX) Mar 20, 2009Nyiragongo, an active African volcano, possesses lava unlike any other in the world, which may point toward its source being a new mantle plume says a University of Rochester geochemist. The lava composition indicates that a mantle plume-an upwelling of intense heat from near the core of the Earth-may be bubbling to life beneath the soil of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The finding ... more GE, Singapore to set up water research facility 
Singapore (AFP) March 19, 2009US conglomerate General Electric (GE) and a Singapore university said Thursday they will invest 100 million US dollars in a research facility aimed at helping solve the world's water problems. GE Water, a unit of GE Energy, signed an agreement with National University of Singapore to establish the Singapore Water Technology Centre at the school's campus, a GE statement said. The facility ... more Analysis: International river water woes 
Istanbul, Turkey (UPI) Mar 19, 2009 The scale of issues being discussed at the fifth World Water Forum in Istanbul is vast, ranging from basic sanitation in Third World countries to massive international hydroelectric projects. The event has attracted heads of state, including Turkish President Abdullah Gul, Iraq's Jalal Talabani and Tajikistan's Emomalii Rahmon, five prime ministers and the crown prince of Japan, Naruhito Kotai ... more |
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Ciudad Obregon, Mexico (SPX) Mar 19, 2009The world's leading wheat experts from Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas - invited to Mexico by Nobel Prize Winner Norman Borlaug - have reported significant progress in developing new varieties of wheat capable of resisting a virulent form of an old plant disease that threatens wheat production worldwide. But research released at the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative 2009 Tech ... more Nuclear technology tracks Caribbean pollution 
Panama (AFP) March 16, 2009A UN agency is using nuclear material and technologies to study coastal pollution in a dozen Caribbean countries caused mainly by oil refineries, its officials said. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is focusing on marine pollution in this project because the sea is vital to the region, accounting for up to 60 percent of the gross domestic products of some countries. "We are ... more Wonder or folly? 33-bln-dollar Libyan water scheme stirs debate 
Istanbul (AFP) March 18, 2009Libya shed light on Wednesday on a 33-billion-dollar scheme, contested by some as mad or wasteful, to extract water from deep beneath the Sahara and pipe it across the desert to its coastal cities. For the first time in a major international forum, Libyan officials gave a presentation of the "Great Man-Made River Project," a scheme that dwarfs all for ambition and cost, and defended it again ... more Tobacco Makes Medicine 
Verona, Italy (SPX) Mar 19, 2009Tobacco isn't famous for its health benefits. But now scientists have succeeded in using genetically modified tobacco plants to produce medicines for several autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, including diabetes. The research is published in the open access journal BMC Biotechnology. A large team of scientists from several European research organizations have participated in the study ... more From a loo to you: Recycled sewage struggles with yuk factor 
Istanbul (AFP) March 19, 2009One day, when you read on a drink bottle "this water has been passed by the minister of health," the message may be open to interpretation in more ways than one. To a corps of hydrologists, the only way that parched regions of the world can meet the surging demand for water is to recycle -- and use -- the stuff that has already been through the human body. Rather than throwing away water ... more |
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Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Mar 19, 2009Netafim has concluded an agreement with Etanalc, pursuant to which Netafim will be the sole provider of irrigation equipment and related services for the world's largest drip irrigation project. The project includes production of both Ethanol and electricity from cultivation of sugar cane. The total development cost of the first phase of the project is over 900 million dollars. The project ... more Analysis: Lula sticks up for ethanol 
Miami (UPI) Mar 18, 2009 Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is turning to the American business community for help in convincing the United States to lift the import tariff on his country's ethanol, a world-leading alternative fuel. Following his recent talks with U.S. President Barack Obama, Lula, the first Latin American leader to meet with the president, asked for business leaders to join him in ... more New Aerosol Observing Technique Turns Gray Skies To Blue 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 18, 2009Tiny, ubiquitous particles in the atmosphere may play a profound role in regulating global climate. But the scientists who study these particles - called aerosols - have long struggled to accurately measure their composition, size, and global distribution. A new detection technique and a new satellite instrument developed by NASA scientists, the Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS), should hel ... more Czech PM defers ratification of US missile shield 
Prague (AFP) March 17, 2009Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said his government was deferring a vote on a controversial US missile shield due on Tuesday in parliament amid fears that it could be rejected. "The government has decided to withdraw the two pacts with the United States on setting up a radar station on Czech soil," he said in a brief statement on state television. The treaty was due to be ratified ... more Coming soon: 'Sustainable water' certification 
Istanbul (AFP) March 17, 2009A couple of years from now, beer, cola, rice, breakfast cereal, cotton T-shirts and many other goods may come with a new logo: a label which says the water used to make this product came from a sustainable source. The scheme, unveiled at the World Water Forum in Istanbul on Tuesday, seeks to make a "Water Stewardship" tag as successful as Forest Stewardship Certification, a fast-growing syst ... more
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